Edward Christopher Sheeran, MBE (born 17 February 1991) is an English singer-songwriter. In early 2011, Sheeran independently released the extended play, No. 5 Collaborations Project. After signing with Asylum Records, his debut album, + (pronounced "plus"), was released in September 2011. It topped the UK and Australian charts, reached number five in the US, and has since been certified eight-times platinum in the UK.
The album contains the single "The A Team", which earned him the Ivor Novello Award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically. In 2012, Sheeran won the Brit Awards for Best British Male Solo Artist and British Breakthrough Act. "The A Team" was nominated for Song of the Year at the 2013 Grammy Awards, where he performed the song with Elton John.
Ed Sheeran named the UK’s most played artist for the fourth time in five years
officialcharts.comEd Sheeran has been revealed as the UK’s most played artist of 2019. Topping the Most Played Artist Chart for the fourth time in five years, Ed Sheeran proved to be 2019’s most popular artist soundtracking the lives of people in the UK, according to UK music industry licensors PPL The company’s yearly charts reveal the most popular artists and songs across music usage and airplay data on radio and television, and public locations such as pubs, clubs, jukeboxes and shops.
Ed also claims the fourth most played song with I Don't Care, his Number 1 collaboration with Justin Bieber - one of three chart topping singles he picked up in 2019.
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